PAST was honoured to attend the 2026 #Morame Regional Tourism Conference this past Saturday. Our region’s extraordinary paleo-tourism sites showcase South Africa’s rich fossil heritage, inspiring global curiosity about our shared human origins. A special thank you to @PatriciaDeLille for championing the connection of UNESCO World Heritage Sites across the province. Initiatives like these build public awareness of our shared roots and help safeguard our scientific heritage for generations to come. 🌍🦴 🎥 Watch the SABC coverage: youtu.be/AUe48WUwrL8 #MORAMERegionalConference #ExploreWestRand #TourismDevelopment #GrowingTourism #BuildingProsperity

🧬🌍 Are humans still evolving? Was there ever a “first human”? Why did Neanderthals disappear — and did early humans really live in caves? Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins WIRED to tackle some of the internet’s biggest questions about human evolution 🧠🦴 Watch here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Ejun0lzE… #OriginSciences 🔬 #HumanEvolution #Palaeoanthropology #DeepTime #AllFromOne

Happy Fossil Friday 🦴 ! Take our money! 💸 📢 Call for Proposals: Andrea Leenen Memorial All From One Research Grant PAST is inviting applications for African-based field, laboratory & museum collections research in palaeontology 🦴🔬 Projects should address one or more of these themes: 🌍 African origins & human unity 🌡️ Palaeoclimate, palaeoecology & today’s environmental crisis 🦖 Prehistoric extinctions & the modern biodiversity crisis 📅 Deadline: 23 October 2026 Full details & application info 👇 past.org.za/wp-content/uploa… #OriginSciences #AllFromOne #Palaeontology #FossilFriday #ResearchGrant

📺 LIVE ON eNCA | Sunday, 6 September at 13:15 Catch @EmilKrupandan , Director of Operations at @PAST_Africa , speaking with Kendal Makgamathe on News Link tomorrow morning. 🌍⚠️ Topic: As El Niño strengthens, PAST warns that climate change is accelerating Earth’s Sixth Extinction — and why the fossil record shows the urgency to act. Tune in on eNCA, DStv Ch. 403 📡 #eNCA #NewsLink #ClimateChange #SixthExtinction #ElNino #PASTAfrica #OriginSciences

🎙️🌍 Tune in to @Moneyweb with @maggsonmedia to hear PAST Director Dr Emil Krupandan discuss the 6th mass extinction event we’re facing 🦴⚠️, what past extinctions in the fossil record can tell us about what we're dealing with🔍⏳, and why urgent action is needed now 🌱🚨. 👉🏾 Don’t miss it. Listen, learn, and share the message for our planet’s future 🌍📢 Emil is on at 18:57 👇 moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-podc… #OriginSciences 🔬 #AllFromOne 🌍 #ClimateAction 🌱 #Palaeontology 🦴 #SixthExtinction 🌋

PAST welcomes new CEO, Dianne van der Tuin!! 🦴🌍 With 18 years of leadership experience across strategic development, environment al campaigning, fundraising, communications and partnership building, Dianne brings a wealth of experience to the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST). Her connection with PAST began in 2017, when she worked alongside the team to raise awareness of South Africa’s remarkable fossil heritage, including the public unveiling of the renowned Little Foot skeleton. Now, she returns to lead PAST in making our rich fossil heritage more accessible to children and youth across South Africa. Welcome to PAST, Dianne!🎉🎉 Get to know Di past.org.za/past-new-ceo/

🧬🌍 Human evolution is not a straight line — and science keeps showing us just how complex our story really is. New discoveries are reshaping old assumptions about where we came from, how we adapted, and what it means to be human. Watch more 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=aCfmEJOh… #OriginSciences 🔬 #HumanEvolution 🦴 #DeepTime #Palaeoanthropology #AllFromOne

📢 Grants available! PAST is offering grants for palaeontological research and postgraduate training 🦴🎓 A great opportunity for emerging researchers working in the origin sciences. 🗓️ Application deadline: 1 August 2026 Learn more/apply 👇 past.org.za #OriginSciences #FossilFriday #Palaeontology #PostgradFunding #AllFromOne

🦖 Dinosaurs didn’t just appear, dominate, and disappear — their story unfolded over 250 million years of evolution, extinction and adaptation. From humble beginnings to global dominance, their rise and fall reminds us how dramatically life can change through deep time 🌍✨ Watch more 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0VyaXj… #OriginSciences 🔬🦴 #DeepTime #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs

🎓 Fully funded PhD opportunity at @WitsUniversity’s Evolutionary Studies Institute! 🐗🦴 Project focus: South African Plio-Pleistocene suid diversity and its role in reconstructing palaeoecological & palaeoclimatic change. Part of the PLIODIS project, under Prof Marion Bamford. Applications accepted until filled. More info/apply 👇 #OriginSciences #Palaeontology #PhDOpportunity #AllFromOne

🌊🧬 Turns out life’s first animals may have had their own dating crisis… New fossil research suggests asexual reproduction kept biodiversity low for millions of years — long before apps, ghosting, or the male loneliness epidemic entered the chat 😅 When stress increased, sex helped life diversify faster ✨ Read more 👇 cam.ac.uk/research/news/a-la… #OriginSciences 🔬 #FossilMonday🦴 #DeepTime #Evolution

🦕🌍 Meet Bicharracosaurus dionidei — a newly identified giant long-necked dinosaur from Argentina 🇦🇷 dating back ~157 million years! At nearly 20 m long, this Jurassic giant may represent the first known brachiosaurid from South America 🦴✨ Its discovery is helping scientists rethink how massive sauropods evolved across Gondwana — and highlights the importance of southern hemisphere fossils in telling the story of dinosaur evolution. Read more 👇 sci.news/paleontology/bichar… #OriginSciences 🔬 #FossilTuesday? 🦴 #DeepTime 🌍 #Paleontology

🎓🔬 A PhD isn’t just about consuming knowledge — it’s about creating it. And that process is often messy, uncertain & nonlinear. It can be a difficult journey. New insights on doctoral supervision highlight the importance of collaboration 🤝, multidisciplinary thinking 🌍 and helping students align research with their strengths ✨ Supporting young researchers is essential for the future of #OriginSciences. Read more 👇 timeshighereducation.com/cam… #PhDLife #Research #AcademicTwitter #AllFromOne

🌊🦴 Did low tide shape humanity’s journey out of Africa?New research suggests early humans may have used coastal low-tide routes to move along shorelines—opening new pathways for migration beyond Africa 🌍These shifting coastlines could have made resources easier to access, supporting movement and survival.✨ Sometimes, the smallest environmental changes shape the biggest human stories.Read more 👇 dailymaverick.co.za/article/… 🔬 #AllFromOne 🌍 #HumanEvolution #DeepTime